> On Oct 7, 2016, at 3:25 PM, Marcel Bischoff <mar...@herrbischoff.com> wrote: > > On 16/10/07, Brandon Allbery wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> wrote: >> >>> the cool kids also aren't writing 'tcl' these days ... >> >> >> ...but the way they write anything else, they might as well be writing >> fortran... > > Let me just chime in here and say that those kinds of attitudes are > exactly what I mean when I write "exclusive". It's good and fine to have > certain standards but dismissing the majority of possible contributors > for not meeting your personal interpretation of How Things Should Be(tm) > is surely not helping getting MacPorts more traction. A major effort > should be to make it as easy and straight-forward for new developers to > contribute in a way that is considered acceptable.
I have no intention of dismissing any contributors in advance. I'll judge each contribution on its merits. I agree we need to make it easier to contribute. It's going to be a long process of redesigning web sites, rewriting documentation, etc. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
